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Cambridge University Press Institutions on the Edge
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Cambridge University Press Religious Minorities in Iran 13 Cambridge Middle East Studies Series Number 13
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Cambridge University Press Gay Rights and American Law
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Cambridge University Press The Cold War and the United States Information Agency
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Cambridge University Press Religious Liberty in Transitional Societies
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Cambridge University Press Immigration and Politics in the New Europe
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Cambridge University Press Women and Politics in Iran
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Cambridge University Press Political Disaffection in Cubas Revolution and Exodus Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
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Cambridge University Press Are Liberty and Equality Compatible For and Against
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Cambridge University Press Making Bureaucracy Work
Book SynopsisThis book sheds new light on bureaucratic performance and education in developing countries. Through a multi-level comparative analysis of four Indian states, and over two years of ethnographic research, the book opens the 'black box' of Indian bureaucracy, revealing how bureaucratic norms interact with social inequalities to shape public services.Trade Review'In Making Bureaucracy Work, Mangla delves deeply into the local implementation of education policy in some of India's poorest states to ask when governments are able to deliver social services to their citizens and, ultimately, to improve social outcomes. His novel answer to this vitally important question focuses on how bureaucratic norms, which vary markedly across different localities, drive better implementation of government education policies. Paradoxically, a commitment to 'legalism,' which compels bureaucrats to strictly enforce rules and administrative hierarchies, can hinder school monitoring, among other tasks, reinforcing inequalities, whereas norms of 'deliberation' are more flexible, encouraging pragmatic responses to policy challenges. Based on deep ethnographic research, Mangla zooms into the local politics of service delivery in ways that few scholars have done, advancing our knowledge of how social outcomes actually improve - or fail to improve - on the ground.' Melani Cammett, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University'For all that has been written about the Indian state, we have never really understood how the bureaucracy works. Until now. Mangla's book not only unpacks the Indian state, but through his empirically rich and rigorously crafted comparative analysis of the education bureaucracy in subnational states he shows us how and why bureaucracies can utterly fail and when they become agents of inclusive development.' Patrick Heller, Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Brown University'This meticulously researched book addresses one of the deepest puzzles about Indian development, the early neglect of basic education, and its later (partial) correction. Using a variety of empirical methods and sources, the book highlights the role of bureaucratic norms in policy implementation and outcomes and provides a novel and richly textured understanding of state capacity.' Devesh Kapur, Starr Foundation Professor of South Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins University'Social norms are the glue and grease of every organization, from families and communities to corporations and governments. Yet the origins, durability and effects of social norms are remarkably understudied. In this path-breaking book, Akshay Mangla documents the decisive role that implementation systems characterized by legalistic and deliberative social norms play in shaping the wide variation in learning outcomes across primary schools in north India. Mangla takes us on an engaging and instructive journey across different interacting layers of carefully matched locations to tease out where, how and when social norms create or shrink space for problem-solving and innovation. The implications of his findings are of first-order importance not only for Indian policymakers seeking to enhance learning outcomes for millions of students, but for all those forging new ways to build state capability for policy implementation.' Michael Woolcock, World Bank and Harvard University, Co-author of Building State CapabilityTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction, Puzzles and Theory: 1. Introduction: bureaucracy and the politics of implementing primary education; 2. Bureaucratic norms: a theory of implementation; 3. The state and primary education in India; Part II. Implementing Primary Education in Northern India: 4. How legalistic bureaucracy generates uneven implementation; 5. How deliberative bureaucracy facilitates adaptive implementation; 6. Norm persistence: exit, voice and bureaucratic inertia; 7. Norm change: conflict and commitment on the front lines of reform; Part III. Comparative Extensions and Implications: 8. The argument in comparative perspective; 9. Conclusion: reimagining bureaucracy for inclusive development; Appendix: researching bureaucracy and frontline public services.
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Cambridge University Press Mobility Economies in Europes Borderlands
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Cambridge University Press Lordship State Formation and Local Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
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Cambridge University Press Crisis Leadership
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Cambridge University Press Electoral Practice and the Election Commission of India
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Cambridge University Press Kashmir in the Aftermath of Partition
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Cambridge University Press Netanyahu vs The Generals
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Cambridge University Press Netanyahu vs The Generals
Book SynopsisBenjamin Netanyahu is Israel's longest-serving prime minister and known to his supporters as 'Mr. Security'. This book explains the paradox of the intense mutual distrust between Netanyahu and the Israeli security community, which rejects his leadership and approach to national security.Trade Review'A major reason why Netanyahu is the longest serving PM in Israel is his ability to recognize potential leaders that might challenge him personally and disarm them. Yet the entire Israeli military elite confronts Bibi also because of an additional reason: Contrary to their professional approach to the Palestinians and the occupied territories, which is flexible and pragmatic, Bibi's attitude is essentially ideological. This book provides an excellent background to the military's longtime opposition to Bibi and to his attempt to overhaul of the judicial system in the summer of 2023.' Yoram Peri, Professor Emeritus and Former Kay Chair and Director of Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, University of Maryland'Guy Ziv has assembled an impressive array of published material and significant interviews to produce an important study of the relationship between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel's military leaders. Ziv answers a critical issue that has confounded policymakers and the public: In a society in which the Israeli military has been held in such high esteem, why have voters tended to believe Netanyahu over the generals on such important issues as the future of the peace process and Israel's relations with Iran?' Daniel Kurtzer, Former US Ambassador to Israel and Egypt and Professor at Princeton University'This book is absolutely essential for understanding how Israel finds itself today in one of the most precarious security realities it has ever experienced. Ziv traces how, for years, Israel's entire security establishment - including military leaders and Israel's internal, and external intelligence community - has relentlessly warned against the dire consequences of the policies advanced by the country's longest serving Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Through an in-depth examination of the evolution of civil-military relations under Netanyahu, he explains the underpinning of a central paradox in Israeli politics, namely, why while many Israelis see Netanyahu as 'Mr. Security,' Israel's security establishment 'has long viewed him as a security liability'.' Lihi Ben Shitrit, Henry and Marilyn Taub Associate Professor of Israel Studies, New York University'Ziv tells a fascinating story of a nation which prioritized security as a central need since its early days, which has repeatedly yearned for leaders with rich security backgrounds, and which has recently found itself under a prime minister accused of jeopardizing that very same security for advancing personal political and judicial agendas … a vital read for anyone interested in learning about Israel's political and security history, but also for those seeking a solid basis of understanding to follow domestic transitions that the war in Gaza may bring.' Nimrod Goren, Senior Fellow for Israel Affairs at the Middle East Institute, and President and Founder of Mitvim - The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies'A brilliant account on how a single person driven by personal interests harmed Israel's core values, national security, collective solidarity, and long-term interests. Ziv systemically analyses how Netanyahu's hollow populist nationalism unravelled the country's identity as the secure, democratic nation-state of the Jewish People.' Gilead Sher, Former chief of staff of Israeli Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Ehud Barak, senior peace negotiator, and author of Reflections on Conflict Resolution in the Middle East and BeyondTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Israeli security establishment on the two-state solution; 2. 'Mr. Security'; 3. Policy disagreements; 4. The diminished clout of the generals; 5. Populists vs the security establishment; 6. Conclusion; Afterword.
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Cambridge University Press Freedom Repression and Private Property in Russia
Book SynopsisThis study demonstrates how the emergence of private property and a market economy after the Soviet Union's collapse enabled a degree of freedom while simultaneously supporting authoritarianism. Based on case studies, it analyzes how private property and free markets spawn feudal elements in society.Trade Review'Arutunyan and Shlapentokh, a verteran sociologist with a deep understanding of Russian society, argue that Putin's Russia is still shaped by many social institutions inherited from the Soviet era … Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections.' Paul Rutland, ChoiceTable of Contents1. Private property and big money in political regimes in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia: a theoretical overview; 2. Ideology and public opinion in a centralized society and in a fragmented society; 3. Corruption, the power of state and big business in the Soviet and post-Soviet regimes; 4. Enemies and the issue of legitimization in the Soviet and post-Soviet regimes; 5. Political police before and after; 6. Treatment of strikers in Soviet and post-Soviet times: Novocherkassk and Mezhdurechensk; 7. Foreign policy: the geopolitical factor before and money after; 8. A freedom which Putin dearly loves - the right to leave his country; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Cement of Civil Society Studying Networks in Localities Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes civil society as a field of organizations mobilizing on collective goals. Drawing upon field work on citizens' organizations in two British cities, this book combines network analysis and social movement theories to show how to represent civil society as a system of relations between multiple actors.Trade Review'Social movements are just one among several important and interrelated modes of coordinating collective action. Networks are outcomes of, rather than preconditions for, sustained interactions among groups and organizations. Elaborating this vision, Mario Diani puts social movements in their place and turns networks on their head while cementing the foundation of a truly innovative framework for rigorous analysis of civil society as a distinct field. Read this book as a blueprint for the future of research on collective action in civil society.' Ronald Breiger, University of Arizona'By moving beyond aggregative, trait-based views of social and political structure to relational conceptions, Diani deftly turns the kaleidoscope to reveal heretofore unseen patterns in civil society. His fascinating findings supplement some existing literature while turning some traditional conclusions on their heads. This work creates a new, compelling imperative for incorporating complex network dynamics into research on civil society organizing.' Janet L. Fulk, University of Southern California'… a major contribution to relational sociology, the study of civil society and social movement studies. Diani's book is a huge step in the right direction, not only for political sociology and social movement studies, but for sociology more generally. Let us hope that it taps into the current relational momentum in sociology, infusing it with the methodological and empirical dimension which, sadly, it often lacks, and thus perhaps helping to make a genuine difference to the discipline.' Nick Crossley, PArtecipazione e COnflitto'The Cement of Civil Society advances such a rich and insightful research agenda … [It] provides an impressive theoretical contribution to the literature on civic networks and social movements. Finally, the epistemological and methodological reorientation Diani proposes throughout this book will certainly embody a long-lasting contribution to the way we think and study the structure of local civil societies.' Gianluca De Fazio, PArtecipazione e COnflitto'Mario Diani's masterful new book … convincingly argues that relations are central to understanding contentious politics … this is an important book that will serve as a primary reference on social movement networks. I was not only thoroughly impressed by its theoretical and methodological sophistication, but also by its careful and logical structure. Diani patiently guides the reader through an extremely complex process that reveals how relations are constructed and structured, and how they affect practices and influence in two different cities. The book is a must read for any scholar and student interested in social movements and contentious politics.' Walter J. Nicholls, PArtecipazione e COnflitto'The Cement of Civil Society … brings valuable insights for the study of nonprofit organizations, mainly by showing how the distinction between formal organizations and informal groups may hide practices and relationships that are relevant for understanding the role and possibilities of civil society … it is a valuable contribution to the discussion of the relationship between nonprofits, social movements, and other civil society groups.' Marcelo Marchesini, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction: of King Solomon, Goethe, and civic networks; 1. Modes of coordination of collective action; 2. The importance of local comparisons: civic organizations in British cities; 3. Building civic networks: strategies of tie formation; 4. The structural bases of civil society; 5. Network positions and their incumbents; 6. The duality of organizations and events; 7. Network centrality and leadership; 8. Civic networks and urban governance; 9. 'Networking' contentious politics; Postfaction: bringing time and space(s) into the picture.
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Cambridge University Press From Media Systems to Media Cultures
Book SynopsisIn From Media Systems to Media Cultures: Understanding Socialist Television, Sabina Mihelj and Simon Huxtable delve into the fascinating world of television under communism, using it to test a new framework for comparative media analysis. To understand the societal consequences of mass communication, the authors argue that we need to move beyond the analysis of media systems, and instead focus on the role of the media in shaping cultural ideals and narratives, everyday practices and routines. Drawing on a wealth of original data derived from archival sources, programme and schedule analysis, and oral history interviews, the authors show how communist authorities managed to harness the power of television to shape new habits and rituals, yet failed to inspire a deeper belief in communist ideals. This book and their analysis contains important implications for the understanding of mass communication in non-democratic settings, and provides tools for the analysis of media cultures globallTrade Review'From Media Systems to Media Cultures is a wonderful contribution to comparative media studies. It theorizes the complex and little-known world of state socialist television, and provides a compelling example of what it means to compare media cultures, and how this is related to the study of media systems.' Daniel C. Hallin, University of California, San Diego'This ambitious volume performs exemplary comparative research on socialist television, shifting the emphasis from media systems to media cultures. This book makes a major contribution to the study of mass communication under authoritarian rule and is a significant intervention in global communication and media research.' Aniko Imre, author of TV Socialism'This book fruitfully uses the state socialist TV landscape to reset our notions of media culture across diverse national contexts. Refracting the idea of comparative media through the gaze of entangled modernities, it complicates existing understandings of Cold War TV and recasts it in terms more consonant with culture. A creative and generative study that promises to have decisive impact on how we think about comparative media research.' Barbie Zelizer, Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, University of Pennsylvania'In this pioneering, deeply researched and remarkably wide-ranging study, Mihelj and Huxtable have brought the insights of media studies to bear on the history of socialist television. They are sensitive to cultural particularities but always alive to comparisons and connections, both between individual socialist countries and between socialist 'East' and liberal democratic 'West'. Historians and theorists of Western media will have much to learn from this book as they reflect on their own fields.' Stephen Lovell, King's College LondonTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Media cultures; 3. Historical context; 4. Varieties of modernity; 5. Publications; 6. Privacy; 7. Transnationalism; 8. Everyday time; 9. History; 10. Extraordinary time; 11. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Cambodia
Book SynopsisArgues that following the 1993 United Nations intervention to promote democracy, the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) perpetuated a patronage state. They maintained electoral authoritarianism, but saw increased political awareness among the public. This Element explores Cambodia's return to authoritarianism, made possible in part by China's pivot to Cambodia.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Patronage, power and the state; 3. Patronage, resource mobilization and aid dependency; 4. Parties, elections, and civil society under electoral authoritarianism; 5. The rise of countermovement to electoral authoritarianism; 6. The return to authoritarianism; 7. Conclusion – will the pendulum swing?
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Cambridge University Press Behavioral Science and Public Policy
Book SynopsisBehavioral science is playing an increasing role in public policy, and it is raising new questions about fundamental issues - the role of government, freedom of choice, paternalism, and human welfare. In diverse nations, public officials are using behavioral findings to combat serious problems - poverty, air pollution, highway safety, COVID-19, discrimination, employment, climate change, and occupational health. Exploring theory and practice, this Element attempts to provide one-stop shopping for those who are new to the area and for those who are familiar with it. With reference to nudges, taxes, mandates, and bans, it offers concrete examples of behaviorally informed policies. It also engages the fundamental questions, include the proper analysis of human welfare in light of behavioral findings. It offers a plea for respecting freedom of choice - so long as people''s choices are adequately informed and free from behavioral biases.Table of Contents1. The behavioral revolution; 2. Do our choices make us happy; 3. Government; 4. Mistakes; 5. Judgments; 6. Theory and practice; 7. Welfare; 8. Freedom; 9. Paths forward.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc A Kidnapped West
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OUP India No Shortcuts
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MIT Press Propaganda Art in the 21st Century
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MIT Press Ltd CoIllusion Dispatches from the End of
Book SynopsisReports from America's political crisis, exposing a new “iconopolitics,” in which words and images lose their connection to reality.The political crisis that sneaked up on America—the rise of Trump and Trumpism—has revealed the rot at the core of American exceptionalism. Recent changes in the way words and images are produced and received have made the current surreality possible; communication through social media, by design, maximizes attention and minimizes scrutiny. In Co-Illusion, the noted writer on art, photography, and politics David Levi Strauss bears witness to the new “iconopolitics” in which words and images lose their connection to reality. The collusion that fueled Trump's rise was the secret agreement of voters and media consumers—their “co-illusion”—to set aside the social contract. Strauss offers dispatches from the epicenter of our constitutional earthquake, writing first from the 2016
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MIT Press Global Gay How Gay Culture Is Changing the World
Book SynopsisA panoramic view of gay rights, gay life, and the gay experience around the world.In Global Gay, Frédéric Martel visits more than fifty countries and documents a revolution underway around the world: the globalization of LGBT rights. From Saudi Arabia to South Africa, from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv, from Singapore to the United States, activists, culture warriors, and ordinary people are part of a movement. Martel interviews the proprietor of a “gay-friendly” café in Amman, Jordan; a Cuban-American television journalist in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; a South African jurist who worked with Nelson Mandela to enshrine gay rights in the country's constitution; an American lawyer who worked on the campaign for marriage equality; an Egyptian man who fled his country after escaping a raid on a gay club; and many others. He tells us that in China, homosexuality is neither prohibited nor permitted, and that much Chinese gay life takes place on social media;
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Back Bay Books They Cant Kill Us All
Book SynopsisAn indispensable work of journalism that “is electric, because it is so well reported” (Dwight Garner, New York Times) by Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Wesley Lowery that describes the earliest days of #blacklivesmatter and brings to life the quest for justice in the murders by police of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray as well as an intimate, moving portrait of the activists working to dismantle systemic racism in America Conducting hundreds of interviews over the course of one year of reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled from Ferguson, Missouri, to Cleveland, Ohio; Charleston, South Carolina; and Baltimore, Maryland; and then back to Ferguson to uncover life inside the most heavily policed, if otherwise neglected, corners of America today. In an effort to grasp the magnitude of the repose to Michael Brown's death and understand the scale of the problem police violence represents, Lowery speaks to Brown's family and the families of other victims other victims' families as well as local activists. By posing the question, 'What does the loss of any one life mean to the rest of the nation?' Lowery examines the cumulative effect of decades of racially biased policing in segregated neighborhoods with failing schools, crumbling infrastructure and too few jobs. Studded with moments of joy, and tragedy, They Can't Kill Us All offers a historically informed look at the standoff between the police and those they are sworn to protect, showing that civil unrest is just one tool of resistance in the broader struggle for justice. As Lowery brings vividly to life, the protests against police killings are also about the black community's long history on the receiving end of perceived and actual acts of injustice and discrimination.They Can't Kill Us All is a canonical work in the fight against police brutality. Lowery grapples with a persistent if also largely unexamined aspect of the otherwise transformative presidency of Barack Obama: the failure to deliver tangible security and opportunity to those Americans most in need of both.
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Random House USA Inc Property and Freedom
Book SynopsisA superb book about a topic that should be front and center in the American political debate (National Review), from the acclaimed Harvard scholar and historian of the Russian Revolution An exploration of a wide range of national and political systems to demonstrate persuasively that private ownership has served over the centuries to limit the power of the state and enable democratic institutions to evolve and thrive in the Western world.Beginning with Greece and Rome, where the concept of private property as we understand it first developed, Richard Pipes then shows us how, in the late medieval period, the idea matured with the expansion of commerce and the rise of cities. He contrasts England, a country where property rights and parliamentary government advanced hand-in-hand, with Russia, where restrictions on ownership have for centuries consistently abetted authoritarian regimes; finally he provides reflections on current and future trend
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W. W. Norton & Company Just Freedom A Moral Compass for a Complex World
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The University of Michigan Press Dangerous Professors
Book SynopsisA collection of essays on academic freedom in the modern world. It investigates the status of academic freedom in the aftermath of 9/11.Trade ReviewDangerous Professors is pertinent, well-executed, and introduces urgently needed perspectives regarding the present meaning and value of academic freedom on campus and, more broadly, in U.S. public and civil society. - Adam Green, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Dangerous Professors
Book SynopsisA collection of essays on academic freedom in the modern world. It investigates the status of academic freedom in the aftermath of 9/11.Trade ReviewDangerous Professors is pertinent, well-executed, and introduces urgently needed perspectives regarding the present meaning and value of academic freedom on campus and, more broadly, in U.S. public and civil society. - Adam Green, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago
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The University of Michigan Press Recharting the Caribbean
Book SynopsisThis careful study of the British Virgin Islands calls attention to the ways in which ideas about nature and choice have come to justify a social order in which half the population is deemed not to belong and is denied legal rights.
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The University of Michigan Press Justice Imperiled
Book SynopsisPortrays a figure who lived a dramatic life at a turning point in German and European history. By the time he fled Nazi Germany in 1934, Max Hirschberg had fought a series of cases in Munich's courtrooms that illuminate both the history of political justice in pre-Nazi Germany and the problem of miscarriages of justice in all Western democracies.Trade ReviewJustice Imperiled is the tale of Germany's Clarence Darrow, its greatest courtroom lawyer, Max Hirschberg. Driven by his determination that right prevail, he proved that forgotten convicts were innocent; he confronted the most vicious Nazis; and he fought, relentlessly, to answer political arrogance with moral principles. This book reads like a legal thriller; it will leave you thinking about the nature of justice and inspired by the human spirit. - Sister Helen Prejean
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Crown Lights Out A Cyberattack A Nation Unprepared
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America’s power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared.“Fascinating, frightening, and beyond timely.”—Anderson Cooper Imagine a blackout lasting not days, but weeks or months. Tens of millions of people over several states are affected. For those without access to a generator, there is no running water, no sewage, no refrigeration or light. Food and medical supplies are dwindling. Devices we rely on have gone dark. Banks no longer function, looting is widespread, and law and order are being tested as never before. It isn’t just a scenario. A well-designed attack on just one of the nation’s three electric power grids could cripple much of our infrastructure—and in the age of cyberwarfare, a laptop has become the only necessary weapon. Several
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Random House USA Inc A Message from Ukraine
Book SynopsisAn urgent call to arms from Time?s Person of the Year,the Ukrainian leader whose unwavering courage in the face of the Russian invasion has inspired the world and turned him overnight into a global beacon of democracyThe words of a man. The message of a people.Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with his most powerful war speeches, this book recounts Ukraine?s story through the words of its president.It is the story of a nation valiantly defending itself from Russian aggression. And it is the story of a people leading the world in the struggle for democracy.Above all, it is a battle cry for us all to stand up and fight for liberty. If not now, when?The only book officially authorized by President Zelensky, A Message from Ukraine includes speeches he has personally selected to tell the story of the Ukrainian people.
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University Press of Kansas Place Matters
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Rowman & Littlefield Breaking the Real Axis of Evil
Book SynopsisWith the removal of not only Saddam Hussein but also Jean-Betrand Aristide, as well as the ongoing civil war in against Charles Taylor in Liberia, much has changed in the world of dictators since the first publication of this work less than a year ago. With his colleagues in diplomacy and politics shying away from bold solutions to this ever-present problem, Ambassador Mark Palmer has once again set out to persuade everyone that the only way to achieve global peace is through the removal of dictators with democracy as their replacements. Drawing on his 25 years of extensive diplomatic experience, Ambassador Palmer asks us to embrace a bold vision of a world made safe by democracy. This is the story of the remaining dictators, the strategy and tactics to oust them, and the need to empower the people of every nation to control their own destinies. We know that these dictators are at the root of terrorism and war. Under their leadership and instruction, millions have gone to their deathTrade ReviewThis is a confident book, written by a confident man. * Times Higher Education *Table of ContentsChapter 1 The Real Axis of Evil Part 2 The Future with Dictators Part 3 A Democratic World Chapter 4 Ousting the Last Forty-Five Part 5 Power in the Modern World Part 6 Sanction Dictators, Not Peoples Chapter 7 Communities of Democracies and Democrats Part 8 The New Architecture of International Power Part 9 Freedom Caucuses Part 10 Global Security Alliance and Coalitions of the Willing Part 11 International Criminal Tribunals Part 12 International Parliamentary Cooperation Part 13 Monarchs for Democracy Part 14 The Nongovernmental Dimension Part 15 The Stakes Chapter 16 Opening Closed Societies Part 17 Presidential Leadership Part 18 Outsiders' Toolbox for Promoting Democracy in Dictatorships Chapter 19 Democracy Development Plans and Action Programs Part 20 Stages of Economic Growth Part 21 Who Will Conduct: The International Dictatorship-to-Democracy Center Part 22 Why Engage? Chapter 23 Embassies as Freedom Houses, Ambassadors as Freedom Fighters Part 24 Extraordinary Opportunity for Creativity Part 25 Dealing Directly with Dictators Part 26 Ambassadors in Action Chapter 27 The Use of Nonviolent Force Part 28 Two-Stage Campaigns to Oust Dictators Part 29 People Power: Two Battlegrounds Part 30 Appendix: The Methods of Nonviolent Action Chapter 31 The Forty-Five Least Wanted Part 32 Personalistic Dictatorships Part 33 Monarch Dictators Part 34 Military Dictators Part 35 Communist Dictators Part 36 Dominant-Party Dictators Part 37 Theocratic Dictator: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran Chapter 38 Out by 2025 Part 39 Asia Part 40 The "Stans," the Middle East, and North Africa: The Heart Part 41 Sub-Saharan Africa Part 42 The Last Dictators in Europe and the Americas Part 43 Afterword Part 44 Epilogue and Action Agenda
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Johns Hopkins University Press Selling Intervention and War
Book Synopsisforeign policy, international security, the military and foreign policy, and international conflict.Trade ReviewHistorians and political scientists will find value in this book. Choice 2006 In a series of five fascinating case studies, Jon Western develops a complex model of the power plays and tussle for real-world effect amongst Washington's foreign policy elites. Media International Australia 2006 Western's book is especially timely because the era of active interventionism sponsored by the George W. Bush administration may continue beyond the presidential election of 2008. -- Doris A. Graber International History Review 2006 Western has done an excellent job on an important topic and his book is worth reading for any scholar studying the war, news, and public opinion connection. Students, in particular, will find this book extremely useful. Political CommunicationTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Liberal Theory and the Politics of Selling WarChapter 2. Saying No to the French at DienbienphuChapter 3. Intervention in LebanonChapter 4. Battling the Vietnam Syndrom in GrenadaChapter 5. Famine in Somalia and Ancient Hatreds in BosniaChapter 6. The War over IraqChapter 7. ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Louisiana State University Press Promoting the War Effort
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University of Arizona Press North American Borders in Comparative Perspective
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Sage Publications, Inc Introduction to Policing
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St. Martin's Griffin Manhunters
Book SynopsisFor the first time, legendary DEA operatives Steve Murphy and Javier F. Peña tell the true story of how they helped put an end to one of the world's most infamous narco-terrorists in Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobarthe subject of the hit Netflix series, Narcos.Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's brutal Medellín Cartel was responsible for trafficking tons of cocaine to North America and Europe in the 1980s and '90s. The nation became a warzone as his sicarios mercilessly murdered thousands of peoplecompetitors, police, and civiliansto ensure he remained Colombia's reigning kingpin. With billions in personal income, Pablo Escobar bought off politicians and lawmen, and became a hero to poorer communities by building houses and sports centers. He was nearly untouchable despite the efforts of the Colombian National Police to bring him to justice.But Escobar was also one of America's most wanted, and the Drug Enforcement Administration
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St Martin's Press I Got a Monster
Book SynopsisThe explosive true story of America''s most corrupt police unit, the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), which terrorized the city of Baltimore for half a decade. When Baltimore police sergeant Wayne Jenkins said he had a monster, he meant he had found a big-time drug dealerone that he wanted to rob. This is the story of Jenkins and the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), a super group of dirty detectives who exploited some of America's greatest problems: guns, drugs, toxic masculinity, and hypersegregation.In the upside-down world of the GTTF, cops were robbers and drug dealers were the perfect victims, because no one believed them. When the federal government finally arrested the GTTF for robbery and racketeering in 2017, the stories of victims began to come out, revealing a vast criminal enterprise operating within the Baltimore Police Department. Cops planted heroin to cover up a fatal crash that resulted from a botched robbery. They stole hundreds of thousands
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St Martin's Press Surveillance State
Book SynopsisWhere is the line between digital utopia and digital police state?Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China's Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticatedand often brutalharnessing of data.It is a story born in Silicon Valley and America's War on Terror, and now playing out in alarming ways on China's remote Central Asian frontier. As ethnic minorities in a border region strain against Party control, China's leaders have built a dystopian police state that keeps millions under the constant gaze of security forces armed with AI. But across the country in the city of Hangzhou, the government is weaving a digital utopia, where technology helps optimize everything from traffic patterns to food safety to emergency response.Award-winning journalists Josh Chin and Liza Lin take readers on a journey through the new world China is building wit
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St. Martin's Griffin The Spy in Moscow Station
Book SynopsisThe thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscowbefore more American assets are rounded up and killed. Foreword by Gen. Michael V. Hayden (Retd.), Former Director of NSA & CIAIn the late 1970s, the National Security Agency still did not officially existthose in the know referred to it dryly as the No Such Agency. So why, when NSA engineer Charles Gandy filed for a visa to visit Moscow, did the Russian Foreign Ministry assert with confidence that he was a spy? Outsmarting honey traps and encroaching deep enough into enemy territory to perform complicated technical investigations, Gandy accomplished his mission in Russia, but discovered more than State and CIA wanted him to know. Eric Haseltine''s The Spy in Moscow Station tells of a time whenmuch like todayRussian spycraft had proven itself far beyond the best technology the U.S. had to offer. The perils of American arrogance mixed with b
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Holt McDougal The Folly and the Glory
Book SynopsisFrom Tim Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, an urgent and gripping account of the 75-year battle between the US and Russia that led to the election and impeachment of an American presidentWith vivid storytelling and riveting insider accounts, Weiner traces the roots of political warfarethe conflict America and Russia have waged with espionage, sabotage, diplomacy and disinformationfrom 1945 until 2020. America won the cold war, but Russia is winning today. Vladimir Putin helped to put his chosen candidate in the White House with a covert campaign that continues to this moment. Putin's Russia has revived Soviet-era intelligence operations gaining ever more potent information fromand influence overthe American people and government. Yet the US has put little power into its defense. This has put American democracy in peril.Weiner takes us behind closed doors, illuminating Russian and American intelligence operations and their conseq
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Henry Holt & Company Waco Rising
Book SynopsisNamed one of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023A news-making account of the war between David Koresh's Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their standoff launched today's militiasIn 1993, David Koresh and a band of heavily armed evangelical Christians took on the might of the US government. A two-month siege of their compound in Waco, Texas, ended in a firefight that killed seventy-six, including twenty-five children. America is still picking up the pieces, and we still haven't heard the full story.Kevin Cook, who revealed the truth behind a mythic, misunderstood murder in his 2014 Kitty Genovese, finally provides the full story of what happened at Waco. He gives readers a taste of Koresh's deadly charisma and takes us behind the scenes at the Branch Davidians' compound, where the new Christ turned his followers into servants and sired seventeen children by a dozen wives. In vivid accounts packed with human drama, Cook harnesses
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